The Jersey City school district plans to ask the Board of Education this week to approve 2 percent pay hikes for five top administrators, a proposal that has elicited jeers from the local teachers union, which has worked one year without a contract.

The BOE is set to approve the hikes at its regular meeting tomorrow night. Each of the administrators already earns more than $150,000 annually.

Ron Greco, who heads the Jersey City Education Association, said it would be "hypocritical" for the district to award raises to top administrators while fighting with the union over a new contract.

"It shows little respect for the teaching and support staff to give an elite group of administrators any raise," Greco, who makes about $101,000 annually, said in an email. "It's always the way. As the old adage goes, the rich get richer (usually on the backs of the less fortunate)."

Among the administrators set to receive raises are three associate superintendents: Patricia Bryant, Ellen Ruane and Aldo Sanchez-Abreu.

Bryant would see her annual salary rise to $166,070 after a $3,246 hike.

Ruane would get a $3,225 increase to $164,477. Sanchez-Abreu's salary would be $155,088 after a $3,041 increase.

Chief Academic Officer Jason Bing Schetelick's proposed salary increase of $3,400 would bring his pay to $173,400. Business Administrator Luiggi C. Campana would make $176,460 after a $3,460 hike.

Schetelick, formerly Bloomfield's superintendent of schools, joined Jersey City's school district last August. Campana was appointed business administrator in February 2013.

Board of Education President Sangeeta Ranade said she would speak more on this after the board meets at its caucus tonight.

District spokeswoman Maryann Dickar, asked to comment on the proposed salary hikes and Greco's comments, said state regulations require new contracts every year for district associate superintendents and its chief academic officer.

In March, the BOE approved a $665 million budget for the 2014-15 school year that comes with a 1.5 percent tax increase, which amounts to about $25 more on a home with an average assessment.

The teachers union has had tense relations with this new board, which began its term in January with three new members who the teachers union campaigned against in last year's school elections.

More than 600 teachers descended on a BOE meeting last month to accuse the board of dragging its feet on contract negotiations.